Chrysi Rapanta

Bio Note

Chrysi Rapanta (Phd Universitá della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa since 2015. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Communication at Zayed University, Dubai (2012-2015) and a research assistant at the New Media in Education Laboratory of the University of Lugano, Switzerland (2008-2011). Thanks to her linguistic capacities (she fluently speaks six languages), she has been working and studying in different places around the world including the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and Greece. She has also been a research visitor in France (Paris Telecom), Canada (University of Windsor), Spain (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Universidad de Barcelona) and UK (The Open University). She is currently working on argumentation and education, and more specifically on the implemention of new methods in educational contexts.

Rapanta, C. & Hample, D. (2015). Orientations to interpersonal arguing in the United Arab Emirates with comparisons to the United States, China and India. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 44(4), 263-287.

Conference Proceedings (selected)

Rapanta, C. (2016). Are you ready to collaborate? An adaptive measurement of students´ arguing skills before expecting them to learn together. In Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 13-16 September, Lyon, France.

Rapanta, C. & Garcia-Mila, M. (2014). Current trends in educational research on argumentation. What comes after Toulmin? In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Society for the Study of Argumentation, 1-4 July, Amsterdam.

Rapanta, C. (2013). How do young Arab Emiratis argue? In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment, 10-13 January, Doha, Qatar.

Rapanta, C. (2011). Argumentation and design deliberation: a mutual relationship. In F. Zenker (Ed.), Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Presented at the 9th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May, Windsor, Ontario.

Institutions

IFILNOVA

The Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) is a research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas) of the New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and is supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.